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...Lainy" Crapp worked up to 80 push-ups and, boasted her proud coach, Frank Guthrie, became "almost as strong as a,man." Before the Olympics began, Guthrie figured Lamy was certainly strong enough to swim like a man. He taught her to reduce her kicking power and to slash the water with her arms in a harsh, unladylike chop The change paid off in spectacular style...
Eisenhower told a news conference British leaders in effect had no alternative but to slash defense spending in view of Britain's post-war economic problems...
...Senate had demonstrated only one problem in attempts to cut the budget: no member of Congress wants to cut where his constituents are apt to bleed. There is a much more serious problem. To make any major cut in the budget, the Congress would have to slash hard at defense, mutual security, farm programs or welfare. And in the halls of Congress, that is like being against motherhood...
Appetite whetted, Clarence Cannon's Appropriations Committee reconvened, lectured 18 agencies on buying new cars, hiring additional employees or constructing plush buildings, then cut their requests by $500 million. Feeling the shock hardest: the Veterans Administration, which took a $206 million slash...
...which include tennis balls, long underwear and iron stewpots, but do not include gasoline or green vegetables (up 33% in the past year). Seventeen times in the past ten months, as the index trembled toward 149.1, white-goateed Socialist Ramadier forced it down by devices ranging from a 20% slash in the Paris price of government-owned cooking gas to abolition of the tax which Parisians pay for street cleaning and trash collection...